Some recent listener feedback

Eric Curry, WOW! This guy was a great interview and once I finished listening I rushed over to a computer near me to check out his stuff. And WOW. This guy inspired me to pick up a flashlight and treat it as a paintbrush.
Thank you guys for bringing Eric into light, pun SO intended.
Rafal
Hi Guys,
Just had brief listen to the podcast, and are up to the part where you talk lens envy. What a Crakka! LOL
Carl Hemmings
Hi Guys,
Just a quick note to say keep up the great work on the podcast, enjoying it very much boys.
Also Bruce, love your Pano work very inspiring, would like to pick your brain sometime mate.
Harry Mellos
Am enjoying listening to the podcast.
Could I suggest one thing... that the distracting background music get the flick.
Sometimes I tune out because of the music, its too loud and annoying.
The banter is great and continue to keep it real and achievable.
Belinda Coulson
Bruce/Glynn,
Catching up on ep 212... by no means an experienced traveller but what worked for condensation is get a zip lock bag... (put the lens in it before going from cold to hot) so the bag condensates, not your lens.
Quick & cheap and can also carry a sandwich when not being used.
Rakesh Shah

March 24, 2013

This week, Bruce is off to not one, but three Bruce Springsteen concerts, but sadly, sans camera.
The Trundle trip in April has had to be severely curtailed in scope due to lack of numbers.
Nefarious going’s on in the camera-retail space in Melbourne.Creative Photo Workshops is about to have a major website overhaul.
Glynn was impressed with the “Fake it til you make it” display on NPR’s website.
Which begs the question…. can composition also be classed as a form of manipulation?
Randy Blythe (singer for metal band “Lamb of God”) is looking for his photographic “style”. Does he HAVE to?
The ever-popular scenario of companies wanting to use your images in return for ‘exposure’ instead of money.
Plus, in honour of this week’s goings-on in Cyprus, we’re offering this epsiode at a 10% discount! 🙂

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December 5, 2010

This week, Scott and Stacey’s wedding,
when commercial contracts go horribly wrong, and the angels who save your butt,
the CPW workshops in Perth,
composition,
and the new iPad magazine for photographers, DI-magazine.
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October 31, 2010

This week’s episode is inspired by this video.
After seeing this, I mentioned to Shelton that with the growing propensity of couples to have both a videographer AND a photographer cover their wedding, these kinds of altercations could potentially become more common if people don’t communicate properly.
Hence, our discussion on how we (the photographers) should do our best to communicate with the videographer (if there is one present on a shoot).
The discussion of videography led on to a discussion of the growing number of DSLR’s on the market which are video-capable .
And that in turn led on to a discussion of audio-capture for your video-enabled DSLR.
Also, my new acquisition,
and CPW are taking their photographic-workshop-madness to Brisbane and Perth.

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October 17, 2010

This week, Shelton asks for my opinion of the David Honl lighting workshop (which I travelled to Melbourne for, on Wednesday… it was awesome btw),
we talk about some of Dave’s awesome HonlPhoto gear, which you should definitely check out,
I talk about Dave’s approach to lighting a shot in a step-by-step manner (see photos at the end of the show notes),
Shelton talks about his recent U.S. trip with CPW,
Shelton has just locked in his Egypt and Middle East photo tour for April 2011 (details coming in the following weeks),
plus (after the show closer), some audio from the wrap-up session at the end of the Honl lighting workshop (apologies about the room acoustics).

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Joana, lit by single flash with Honl Traveller 8″ softbox, 3′ out and 30 degrees above.

Same as previous, but with flash on small tripod behind Joana, facing away, with an Egg Yolk Yellow Honl filter added.

Same as above, but with a third flash positioned back near the rear wall, with a Chocolate Honl filter applied.

And finally, with a fourth light positioned to throw just a hint of light onto Joana’s boots.

September 26, 2010

This week, Mark Loader’s most successful photo,
Rob Stimers chimes in on the water skier conundrum,
Dave Honl will be conducting a one day flash workshop in Melbourne on October 13th,
the boys from CPW are back in the US of A for the next couple of weeks,
plus, seeing the world the same way your lens does.

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July 25, 2010

Finally!
We’re back!
We wind back the clock to just after our last podcast and start wading through the events which have transpired:

Bruce’s car crash,
South Africa and the World Cup (Shelton’s posts: one, two and three),
Shelton’s trip to Nevada and California (where models don’t show up, either, apparently!),
Shelton’s back pain,
the Film Noir shoots that CPW has run in Melbourne recently,
Bruce and Max’s roadtrip (Facebook photos here),
how photography opens up life experiences that you might not otherwise have encountered,
Nathan’s interstate wedding,
a “roadtrip workshop” in CPW’s future perhaps?,
Sydney meetup #7 scheduled for Sunday August 1st (details on Facebook),
and remember, we now have an e-mail address that will reach BOTH of us! Woohoo!

May 16, 2010

This week, Shelton talks about the week-long workshop that CPW recently conducted in New Zealand,
we talk some more about the histogram,
Sydney meetup #4,
discuss the meaning of “chromatic aberration”,
have a laugh at the guy who didn’t really know what SI was all about,
celebrate Nathan Muller’s fantastic achievement,
discuss a couple of old movies, Tron and The Red Violin,
talk about the upcoming PMA trade show in Melbourne,
dinner in Melbourne,
photo judging,
copyright issues (Shelton mentions an article in better photography magazine),
and Bruce shares his thoughts on photographing dogs.

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March 28, 2010

This week, Bruce speaks with Leo and Linda from Wacom Australia about the range of Wacom Intuos graphics tablets, and why every photographer can benefit from one.
Then, Shelton talks about HIS perceptions of a graphics tablet,
we talk about the CPW Advanced Flash Workshop in Melbourne,
working with light modifiers like the Honl grids and snoots,
Bruce is inspired by one of Joe McNally’s quotes,
Lightroom 3 Beta 2 is out now*,
plus we need YOUR help to giveaway a Wacom Intuos 4 graphics tablet.

* After recording, I found out that no, LR3B2 does NOT import LR2 catalogues.

March 14, 2010

This week, just a chat as we catch up with Shelton post-Los Angeles.
Turns out, the “creative photo workshop” is an idea whose time has come.
Shelton talks about all the aspects of the trip, including the Venice Beach shoot.
Last week, I was given an Intuos4 graphics tablet by the nice folks at Wacom here in Australia. I’d never used one before, but having now done some photo retouching with one, I don’t think I could go back to photo manipulation with a mouse ever again!
Oh, and it’s pronounced Wah-com, not Way-com!
Shelton is looking into some of the plugins from Nik Software, including Viveza.
And he’s changed his mind on camera straps, after having been given a Black Rapid R-Strap whilst in LA.
He also discovered Hoodman loupes while he was at PMA.